A group of African-American students who were enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957.
What are the Little Rock Nine
100
An African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy during the American Civil War.
Who is Harriet Tubman (born Araminta Harriet Ross)?
100
He was a famous poet, playwright and novelist who is best known for his work during the Harlem Renaissance.
Who is James Mercer Langston Hughes?
100
"I Am the Greatest of ALL Times!!!!!!!"
Who is Muhammed Ali?
100
A world famous performer known as the "King of Pop".
Who is Micheal Jackson?
200
After graduating from Harvard, where he was the first African American to earn a doctorate, the leader of the Niagara Movement, a group of African American activists who wanted equal rights for blacks.
Who is William Edward Burghardt Du Bois?
200
An African-American civil rights activist and Baptist minister. He was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988 and served as shadow senator for the District of Columbia from 1991 to 1997. He was the founder of both entities that merged to form Rainbow/PUSH.
Who is Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr.?
200
An African-American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic that has a transfer high school in Chelsea named after him.
Who is James Arthur Baldwin?
200
An American baseball player who became the first black Major League Baseball (MLB) player of the modern era he broke the baseball color line when he debuted with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947.
Who is Jack Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson?
200
An actor, poet and hip hop artist who sang hit songs like "Dear Mama", "Brenda's Got a Baby" and "Changes".
Who is Tupac Shakur?
300
In 1962, he was the first African American student admitted to the segregated University of Mississippi, an event that was a flashpoint in the American civil rights movement.
Who is James Meredith?
300
An American voting rights activist and civil rights leader.
She was instrumental in organizing Mississippi Freedom Summer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and later became the Vice-Chair of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party,
Who is Fannie Lou Hamer (born Fannie Lou Townsend)?
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A playwright from Pittsburgh who wrote a series of ten plays including, Fences and The Piano Lesson.
Who is August Wilson?
300
Nicknamed the “Galveston Giant,” was an American boxer. At the height of the Jim Crow era, he became the first African American world heavyweight boxing champion
Who is John Arthur ("Jack") Johnson?
300
The jazz singer who sang jazz standards like, "God Bless the Child", "Lady Sings the Blues" "Good Morning Heartache" and "Strange Fruit".
Who is Billie Holiday (born Elenanor Fagan) or Lady Day?
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In 1881, at age 25, he became the leader of Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.
Who is Booker Taliaferro Washington?
400
An American politician and pastor who represented Harlem, New York City, in the United States House of Representatives (1945–71). He was the first person in New York of African-American descent elected to Congress.
Who is Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.?
400
She wrote a play about housing intergration in the city of Chicago, entitled A Raisin in the Sun.
Who is Lorraine Hansberry?
400
She was a World No. 1 American sportswoman who became the first African-American woman to be a competitor on the world tennis tour and the first to win a Grand Slam title in 1956.
Who is Althea Gibson?
400
An American composer, pianist, and big band leader who referred to his music as "American Music".
Who is Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington
500
In 1926, he initiated the celebration of Negro History Week which corresponded with the birthdays of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln.
Who is Carter G. Woodson?
500
An African American civil rights activist from Mississippi involved in efforts to overturn segregation at the University of Mississippi. He was assassinated by Byron De La Beckwith, a member of the White Citizens' Council.
Who is Medgar Wiley Evers?
500
She created the character "Celie" played by Whoopi Goldberg in the film version of her book, The Color Purple.
Who is Alice Malsenior Walker?
500
He was an American football running back and the first African-American athlete to win the Heisman Trophy.
Who is Ernest "Ernie" Davis?
500
She was an African-American contralto and one of the most celebrated singers of the twentieth century. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963, the Kennedy Center Honors in 1978, the National Medal of Arts in 1986, and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1991.